Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy. On the other hand, there are all kinds of new technologies like AI, biosciences, and new opportunities in the medical field. You can create a computer simulation or animation.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. First Attempt.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. out of 5 stars. Where to buy?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. This article is not intended to be a book review, but I used the skills described in this bestseller to link them with our day-to-day Product Management life.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. We also use that time to work on an incubator project in small teams comprised of offering managers, developers, designers, and researchers. Technical experience is not required. Tell us about yourself.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. It is important to note that planning for and executing an experiment is just the first half of the exercise.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. Your sales team probably doesn’t sketch up database schemas in their spare time and your programmers hopefully aren’t spending too many hours dreaming up catchy marketing slogans, but there’s no shortage of sources for ideas. There are no guarantees.

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

Organisations that do consider innovation tend to focus on new technological gambles that are dubbed to be ‘innovative’ but fail to deliver a commercial return. This approach is a costly exercise and can be likened to ‘gambling’. Organisations with poor product management practices have misguided expectations.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Earn advocacy by exceeding expectations and proactively seeking referrals, reviews, testimonials, and feedback. This qualitative exercise empowers brands with customer insights. Effective journey mapping entails customer research, gathering cross-functional teams, brainstorming sessions, and refining maps based on data and feedback.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

But, when asked about the greatest moment of the turnaround, Mulally says it was when his executive team started being comfortable enough with him to tell him the truth. Poor-performing companies’ employees were 79% more likely to have low overall self-awareness than those at firms with robust ROR. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Moreover, if the team fails to deliver on that metric something is wrong with the Scrum Team. Velocity?—?the

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We didn’t know know if our sales predictions were good or bad. Problems with Customer Development. Early numbers indicated that our growth predictions were very wrong.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But many product leaders at the roundtable reported that their teams struggle to make decisions when they feel the data is either inconclusive or not available in sufficient quantities. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. CEO vs Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. It seems pretty obvious that designers and product teams have different ways of thinking, but have you ever wondered why?

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Joining the Modus Create Team. As an aspiring business leader and entrepreneur, I believe that not having a fundamental understanding of software development and data analysis weakens executive decisions that accordingly diminish long-term value creation. rating from 63 reviews on the App Store with over 500 users.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. " At Google, you'll typically be working in cross-functional teams. Leadership.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

These discussions often get very technical or theoretical: treating roadmapping as a purely intellectual exercise, where our secret ambition is for the world to admire our brilliant algorithms and decision criteria. ” So when we walk a sales team through what’s really coming next quarter, we need to frame it correctly.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Moreover, we ought to expect uncertainty to be increasing due to the hyper growth of digital assets. Agile and The Intuition Gap Iteration via smaller steps allows workers to exercise better intuitive judgment about their work. Poor articulation gets misinterpreted as incompetence. Working closer to the problem space (i.e.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 6, 2022

Google places a significant emphasis on technical skills for its engineering teams. The candidate may have struggled with developing their solution, requiring some guidance from the interviewer. The candidate displayed a poor use of language paradigms. 1 Point: The candidate's problem-solving skills were poor.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. What does good, actionable feedback look like?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Here is a quick summary of these mistakes and why they could be red flags for product team recruiters across the world. But first, let’s review what tailoring your resume implies. Mistake #2: Inappropriate language: Everybody knows that tech is different. This is exactly what you do to avoid the following mistake.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Earn advocacy by exceeding expectations and proactively seeking referrals, reviews, testimonials, and feedback. This qualitative exercise empowers brands with customer insights. Effective journey mapping entails customer research, gathering cross-functional teams, brainstorming sessions, and refining maps based on data and feedback.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

After coaching 100+ tech leads, managers, directors, VPs, and CTOs, Jean and Edmond are distilling their most valuable lessons into workshops and online courses. Engineers inherently know that when tech debt piles up, you need to invest in fixing it. Jean: Especially with engineering teams. All these roles change very quickly.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Technical and product teams can spend a lot of time estimating the effort involved in a proposed piece of work. First you need Entrepreneurs: I like there to be small team to give your Product Manager some help, so Business Analysts, Product Owner and similar are obvious candidates. How Value Poker Works. Apple and Oranges.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Any inaccuracies or misinterpretations are due to me. Identifying and answering the most important questions Launching a socially responsible investing product was something the Nutmeg team wanted to do for a long time. It took a few years until the team felt the market for this product was mature enough. and trust me on this?—?it’s

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

In product development, necessary actions and emergent information is rarely obvious or clear, which is why we need inductive reasoning. Do this often to reorient teams where and when necessary. Only product teams should get objectives (not individual managers across functions).

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

And what about the product team?? They were using the same manufacturing techniques that Henry Ford created at the beginning of the 20th century: waterfall “assembly line” development cycles packaged up onto physical disks. And the marketing team? And this isn’t just in tech. And now we could measure things.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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eG Innovations

MARCH 7, 2023

Consider the scenario – You are an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) joining a team to take charge of their Java applications. 3: Work with your AppDev team on chaos engineering and game days to simulate edge cases. It has been reported that a Java application is very flaky in terms of memory issues.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2019

This acronym popped up a while back in Organization Development circles and when I heard it the first time I thought… uh yeah, that’s all high-tech. But much of the world doesn’t operate like high-tech. Any mistake made by the team is the fault of the leader. Usability is bad. What does that look like?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Modus Create

JULY 1, 2020

I had been on a sort of health kick for a few years: I quit smoking, I started walking to get low impact exercise, and so on. I had been taking 2 Aleve each day (1 morning, 1 evening) because I had been developing arthritis in my hands. In late 2015, I began having minor pain in my hip. My code was otherwise perfect (of course!).

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